Record winners
Gardner Dozois has won the Locus Poll most often, 36 times; for works of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin has won 19 times.

Losers Club (Most nominations with no wins)
Among fiction writers, Gregory Benford, Nancy Kress, Tanith Lee, Robert Reed, Greg Bear, Paul J. McAuley, and Brian Stableford have placed most often without having won

Never Won
Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, William Gibson. Vernor Vinge was on this list until 2004.

Never Even Nominated
L. Ron Hubbard and Hugo Gernsback have never appeared in any Locus Poll results--not even an all-time best category.

(On this page and the Nominee List, 'nominations' refers to rankings below first place in published poll results.)